Another road closed!

In the neighborhood where we are currently renting, they just finished installing paving stones on the road past our house. 

Blocking off the road to ASELSI (to the left in the photo, just past the blockade of barbed wire and sand bags) caused all of ASELSI's traffic to park on the road right outside our house (which is to the right in the photo), often blocking us either in or out of our gate.  In fact, all of the neighbors with cars on our street had trouble coming and going, so the community leaders decided to close off our entire street with a chain and padlocks. 

Yes, padlocks plural!  Certain neighbors were given a key to either one OR the other of the padlocks.  Hmmm...  I actually argued with one neighbor that we should get rid of one of padlocks and only use one.  He responded with the community-life answer that is prevalent here:  "They gave me this key and you that key, so we have to use them.  We'll just lock both padlocks together so either key will open the chain."  My American brain couldn't accept that, so I borrowed BOTH keys and made copies for myself, just in case someone didn't lock them together correctly.

The money for the project came from the municipal government, but there wasn't enough for the whole section of road, so they left just a little bit!